On all of these dimensions, are people talking about distances of
string center to string center (which is how I understand these type
of measurements)? Or might some people be measuring the "gap" between
the string "edges"?
Last night I stumbled across notes I had taken from a 1979 LSA class
with Paul O'Dette. One of the notes from the class read:
"One of the main causes of slapping strings is setting strings in
motion at diff. times. and _not_ of force."
-- R
On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Peter Nightingale wrote:
Ed, Suzanne, Roman, Alexander, ...
Thanks for your suggestions. I remain confused by colliding
strings and
ditto realities.
I cannot believe that Joel van Lennep would make an instrument with
the
design flaws your comments imply. Could it be that my lute does
not live
up to your expectations, because it is a 14 course archlute. (BTW,
Suzanne seems to have a space problem too.) The courses have to be
close
together for the instrument to be playable, it would seem. The
distance
between the string of the 6th and 7th courses is is roughly 4mm,
8mm, and
4mm. If pairs of the individual courses were to be 5mm apart, this
would
become 5mm, 6mm, 5mm. It would introduce a 6.5th course, a
revolutionary
design! My guess is that the compromise that was made tries to
avoid the
the clanging disaster by creating more space at the nut. Actually,
there
is more: the octave strings are slightly closer to the sound board
than
the fundamentals in both courses.
Thanks again,
Peter.
the next auto-quote is:
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by
fear of
punishment and hope of reward after death.
(Albert Einstein)
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